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Links to Selected Web Development Tools for Your Downloading Pleasure
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Topstyle - A popular CSS editor for simple creation of cross-browser style sheets.
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Actinic Catalog - Well-known eCommerce software with over 1300 licensees - and that’s just in the UK!
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WebSpeed Optimizer - A great little utility that throttles back the data transfer within your computer. Just set the controls for 56kbps and watch your site download from your hard drive to your screen at the same speed most of your visitors will receive it.
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Drumbeat 2000 (our full review) - Macromedia ASP software for sophisticated database management. The eCommerce edition goes all the way to the shopfront. A JSP (JavaServer Pages) edition is also available.
- Homesite
Homesite wins coveted Web Developer's Journal Product of the Year, 1998 award with a total of five propheads. Read the review or download the trial version. You can also get the 4.5 beta here.
- Style Master 1.2
Style Master is just the thing for
anyone unfamiliar with the syntax and rules of CSS and for anyone wanting to get CSS to really rock and roll.
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ECware Pro Version 4.0 - Comprehensive eCommerce solution (registration required for download).
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Splash! Web Authoring - Using a drag and drop environment and a full range of HTML-oriented features, SPLASH! gives you the ability to create web sites without any programming or HTML knowledge within minutes of installing the software. Includes java, form and table wizards, easy text formatting all in a no code environment
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Advanced
Template Package - If you do CGI programming in Perl, then this is something you may have been
waiting for -- using templates in Perl scripts.
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Web Hotspots 4.0 - Imagemap editors for static and animated imagemaps.
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Transit Central and HTML Transit - Template-based automated Web publishing software.
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Ozzino Studio - "Let your web pages come alive with exciting animated interactive java applets. Easy to use interface and no programming required.Tons of functionality:- instant animated 3D objects from static images; rotating applets in same location; add interactivity to animated objects and
animated gifs; spectacular drop-down menu bars; and much more."
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Texter - Create dazzling text animation Java applets in seconds with Ozzino's award winning Texter. Easy to use interface and no programming required.
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Calendars for the Web - "The software creates HTML Table and/or Image
Map calendars. I've downloaded many competing
calendar programs and I think my software is much,
much better."
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CheckOut - Shopping cart with Java, enhanced CGI and simple browser modes, plus a variety of other eCommerce tools.
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Spirit - "Spirit can build almost any kind of GUI and deal with interactions. You can build components, vector graphics, spinners, databases, etc."
- Perl Builder - Integrated development environment (IDE) for Perl.
- Menu Wizard - Menu Wizard creates graphics and integrates JavaScript Code in HTML pages to create a frame-embedded MENU SYSTEM. Multilingual versions for English, French and German. This program is shareware. The downloaded version is fully functional.
- PartsHPGL - View CAD drawings via the internet. Zoom and print in high quality. Check it out - it's quite cool (ed.).
- M@X - "New video compression email software from Aims Lab. Lets users send video mail in the same amount of time and space that it takes to send text, and the receiver does not need to have any special viewing capabilities." (Hmmmm. Ed.) Downloadable, time-bombed demo is currently available.
- Jobvertise - "Allows anyone to create careers page for their web site. After the simple setup, HR can then keep the jobs up to date directly without webmaster help. This isn't strictly a download, but it's an interesting service."
- FlyPage Content Editor - Allows any exsisting or new web site to update content through the web browser (no html, no ftp). It gives developers a tool to involve their clients in the timely task of updateing key content areas, such as scheduled events, inventory, announcements, scores, etc.
- InstantOnline - Tool to database enable a web site. You can read information from a database and present the result as an HTML table or as a free-form HTML pattern, and store information submitted by a user through an HTML FORM. You define all database query parameters and HTML properties with familiar HTML-like tags to fit your exact needs.
- Applet CoolText Wizard We haven't checked this one out yet. The company blurb says: Tool to create java scrolling banners for web page without coding.
- Internet Crossword Creator - Create crossword puzzles and place them on a Web page with a Java applet for interactive solving.
- HTMLCAL - Web Calendar Maker and Editor
- PowerWeb 98 - Project-based Web Development Environment
- AuthorIT - An object-oriented document development tool that creates hard copy, Windows help and HTML from a single source.
- Search and Replace - just what the name implies - Very handy!
- Page Depot Instant Publisher - a wizard that guides you through publishing your Web site - Win95, 3.1
- HTML PowerTools - Suite of 8 HTML development tools - 30-day eval version
- Image Browser - thumbnail-view directory browser
- Mac Web tools from Miracle Software
- Simple HTML Editor (Mac)
- Dave - PageMaker to HTML conversion program - Mac only
- HTML Xport - Xtension for QuarkXpress
- WebSucker, ver 2.8 - PageMaker to HTML conversion tool (Mac only)
- Giftrans - about 21k - MS-DOS
- Giftrans for Macintosh
- Mactrans - Another one for Macintosh
- Transparency v1.0b3
- WinGif
- Image Alchemy - converts over 75 image formats. Available for DOS, OS/2, SCO UNIX, and Mac.
- 1 Cool Button Tool Makes cool Java buttons.
- Applet Menu Wizard We haven't checked this one out yet. The company blurb says: Tool to create Java pop-up menu for web page without coding.
- Applet CoolText Wizard We haven't checked this one out yet. The company blurb says: Tool to create java scrolling banners for web page without coding.
- WebPainter 1.0 - Web animation tool - demo version - available for Windows or Mac
- GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - UNIX application - requires X windows
- Gif Wizard - Shrink your GIF file size up to 90%
- NET TOOB Stream 3.5
Stream stuff in Kewl manner.
- Beatnik - A Free Web browser plug-in that plays audio files (RMF, MIDI, MOD, AIFF, WAV and AU files) - Power PC and Win 95/NT
If you're interested in free Web tools, it's likely you'll find the rest of our site interesting too. Here's a small sample of our latest features on Web techniques and Internet business:
Developer's View: Roland Lim
Roland runs Cyberengines in Singapore. The country has high broadband availability and other interesting stuff like HDTV. The big surprise is that few people take up these options.
The Case for Object Detection
David Blakey makes the case for a pure kind of JavaScript object detection, aimed at checking the browser can cope with code that follows, but without making assumptions about its type.
Using Scripting.FileSystemObject
The FileSystemObject is a component often used to access the server's file system. But be wary of the security implications for your Web site.
Paying The Search Engines
Many of the top search engines now accept payment for improved listings or fast appraisal of your site for inclusion in their directories. Here are six options.
Internet Predictions For 2001
Now that January is over and most industry pundits have made their predictions for 2001, Andrew Starling is able to steal their ideas and present them as his own.
Misuse of Administrative Logins
How many times have you set up a connection to an SQL server database with username sa and a blank password? Or to Oracle using the username system and password manager? Go to jail immediately and do not pass GO!
Developer's View: Joe Duncan and Bruce Trevarthen
Joe and Bruce specialise in back-end work, including legacy solutions. Here they give their views on company information systems, primary data sources, and how this kind of stuff translates on to the Web.
Anatomy of a JavaScript Picture Puzzle
This simple JavaScript picture puzzle uses DHTML techniques to show individual sections of a single picture, so it doesn't need multiple graphics files for the various slices. Here's how.
Why The Web Still Isn't Ready For Consumers
Despite early projections, consumers have not been overwhelming e-retailers with business. Why? And is there anything positive we can do to improve the situation?
mmsystem006 problems with Windows drivers? We have the answer!
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